To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: August 2011
In The Middle Of The Pouring Rain
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Never again. I promise. I will never again make a reservation for myself on Continental Airlines using Expedia.com. And if I don’t ever do it again, I will never have to spend a night like this one, trying to avoid a hurricane and finding myself caught in worse weather in the process. […]
Why Perry Hates Regulators: They’re Bad For [His] Business
BY JOE CONASON Like so many Republican officials of the Tea Party persuasion, Rick Perry despises the Environmental Protection Agency – a feeling he has expressed repeatedly in speeches, lawsuits, legislation and even a book titled Fed Up! Perhaps that is only natural for the governor of Texas, a “dirty energy” state where the protection […]
The Real Obama
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The White House that shook in Tuesday’s earthquake has been home to its present incumbent for 32 months. President Obama wasn’t around to watch the furniture shake. He’s up on Martha’s Vineyard for the third year in a row with Michelle and their two daughters, bunkered in a $25,000-a-week holiday rental on […]
Scott Brown No Shoe-In For Re-Election
BY FROMA HARROP When Scott Brown was elected U.S. senator from Massachusetts in a special election last year, Republicans rejoiced. They had wrested the Senate seat held by the late liberal icon Edward Kennedy in a Democratic stronghold. Brown remains quite popular at home. But as he faces the voters again in 2012, will that […]